Situation Update, 5/19/22 - Biden SEIZES control over domestic food materials...
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All right, welcome to the Situation Update for Thursday, May 19th, 2022.
Mike Adams here.
I hope you're ready for some bombshells because yesterday, fake President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act To force food suppliers to redirect ingredients, or raw materials as we call them,
to baby food manufacturers that had previously been accused by the FDA of killing infants due to microbiological contamination of their production facilities that do not meet FDA standards, by the way.
And, I mean, where to begin?
The Defense Production Act is a wartime act It was created in 1950, I believe, in the Korean War, and it is administered by FEMA. So Joe Biden's invocation of the Defense Production Act is essentially an admission that we are at war.
That we are in a state of war and that the government is now going to seize the means of production and that we're going to have centrally planned food distribution controlled by FEMA in America.
That's what just happened.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
This is not an Alex Jones prediction that hasn't come true yet, even though it seems like almost everything that Alex Jones predicts is coming true.
And by the way, I'm hosting the Alex Jones show this Friday, the fourth hour, which starts at 2 p.m.
Central, and I'm going to be talking about this.
So, well, that's tomorrow.
Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be hosting the fourth hour of the Alex Jones show.
I'm going to get into this in a lot more detail.
But the point is that this is not an Alex Jones conspiracy theory.
This is Biden seizing the means of production, forcing food manufacturers and raw materials providers to redirect supplies to Abbott Laboratories, which was shut down because, according to the FDA, its contamination killed babies.
So we now have essentially a communism food distribution process You know, command and control, centrally planned system.
Washington, D.C. is going to decide who gets the food and who doesn't.
Because remember, folks, that when these raw materials are redirected to Abbott Laboratories to make infant formula, those raw materials are taken away from some other company that was going to use them to make something else.
So they haven't solved the food shortage.
They've just shifted it.
They're going to try to supply infant formula, but they're going to be creating an outage in something else.
This is why centrally planned economies are a bad idea.
They do not work.
The solution to this is, of course, free markets.
If you allow the free market to function, there's plenty of profit in infant formula.
Believe me, it won't work.
What Abbott Laboratories charges for that garbage corn syrup solids and casein milk protein and synthetic vitamins and cheap minerals that are practically useless.
And I say that as a food scientist.
I've read their ingredients.
It's horrifying to me what they put in those products.
There's a ton of profit in that stuff.
There would be plenty of companies that would love to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year providing infant formula.
So why isn't that need being filled?
Oh, because the FDA protects what is essentially an infant formula cartel, which consists of Abbott Laboratories and two or three other companies, while the FDA bans the importation of infant formula from other countries, saying that, well, they don't meet safety standards.
And yet Abbott Laboratories doesn't meet safety standards, but suddenly it's a national emergency.
It's a wartime emergency.
Defense Production Act, FEMA, to allow Abbott Laboratories to produce food for infants while the FDA claims that overseas producers are unsafe.
Are you kidding me?
There are overseas producers that are very safe.
I mean, not all of them.
You would have to have some discernment.
But this has been a monopoly system or a cartel system for a long time, an infant formula cartel that is protected by the FDA using anti-free market practices.
So they created the emergency and now they're invoking a communist control system to claim that they're resolving the emergency that they created.
And look at this.
CNBC.com is reporting.
Get this.
Quote, Biden has also directed Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Agriculture to use aircraft from the Defense Department to pick up infant formula from overseas that meets U.S. health and safety standards.
What?
They are using military airplanes to airlift infant formula into the United States?
Are they going to drop it out of the back with parachutes onto neighborhoods with young moms?
Mom's going to have to scramble out in the streets.
Oh, look at the airlifted infant formula out of the sky.
Thank you, Biden.
Is that what this is going to be?
It's insane.
We're using DOD resources to airlift infant formula into the United States.
People, that is insane.
And it is highly inefficient.
This is not the way free markets work.
This is going to be disastrous, and this is only the first precedent.
Make no mistake, Biden's going to expand this.
I mean, this is the shocking thing.
This is what's scary about this, actually.
He has just proven that as the shelves run out of food, which is going to happen again and again and again, this year and next year, that he will seize control of the resources of the food companies.
And then that his regime will direct who gets the food and who doesn't.
Which manufacturers get to make money by making products.
And also, then he's going to use the military...
To bring in whatever is most politically acceptable to the population.
This is like living in North Korea at this point.
You're going to have, what, the military in the streets handing out food to parents who are begging to be saved by the government while the free market is completely shut down?
Let me tie this into something.
But just to summarize that, remember, as the food shortages get worse throughout this year and next year, The Biden regime is going to seize control.
Now, I've talked about this a little bit behind the scenes in previous podcasts, but I'm going to put it right up front right now.
The Biden regime has already seized the output of major storable food manufacturers in the United States.
It has already happened.
You know, I'm in the industry and I've got insiders in the industry who have spoken directly to people who are in, let's just say, the right position to know with absolute certainty that what happens is The State Department,
the DHS, goes to major food manufacturers and says, you know, you are going to sell us all of your output for the next six months, and you can't talk about it.
You have to sign this nondisclosure.
You know, you can't even tell your customers that this is what's happening.
But we, the government, we're going to take all of your food.
That has been happening for a long time.
That has been happening...
For at least a year, maybe longer.
This is why some of these storable food companies don't have any food for customers.
It's all being bought up by the government and it's being forced upon these companies.
They don't have a choice.
And one of my concerns as, you know, healthrangerstore.com, one of my concerns is that at some point they're going to come to us and say the same thing.
You have to sell us your entire product line, you know, all your output.
Fortunately, we produce almost all organic products, and I don't think that the government really wants organic because it's probably too clean for them.
They don't want nutrition.
They don't want superfoods.
They don't want organics.
They want the cheapest stuff that will just fill bellies, you know?
So they can find that somewhere else.
But we might be, you know, insulated from this for longer than others.
But if they did come to us and they said, we're just going to seize your output, you've got to keep producing for us, and you can't talk about it, folks, I would have no choice.
I mean, basically, they're putting a gun to your head.
This is Biden taking over the domestic food supply and food manufacturing in America, and he just proved it with Abbott Laboratories.
In fact, not only did he prove that he's going to use this Korean War Defense Production Act, which is administered by FEMA. I mean, this is FEMA essentially seizing domestic food production.
He just proved that not only is he going to do that, but that he's going to favor the food manufacturers that Biden's own government says are killing babies.
With contaminated food.
It's just incredible.
Couldn't you pick somebody that makes clean food?
Somebody that has a safe kitchen?
Somebody that meets the specs of the FDA? I was talking about this the other day.
Epoxy floors.
Non-porous floors.
So that you can mop them and clean them with appropriate bleach type of materials that are FDA approved and so on.
We're in this business.
I know what I'm talking about.
You go through our production area, it's FRP walls, non-porous, it's epoxy floors, it's particulate filters, ventilation systems, air circulation, it's meticulously washing every part of every machine between every production lot on and on and on.
But I've come to find out over the years that not very many companies do that.
They don't spend the money to have clean facilities, but yet they're getting now favoritism from the government.
It's insane.
The free market would solve this, but the free market is not going to be allowed to function by the Biden regime.
They're going to dictate who gets food and who doesn't.
So keep this in mind.
As the grocery store shelves start to run empty throughout the second half of this year in America and understand that the food shortages are only made worse by the Biden regime.
They don't believe in free markets.
They believe in government dictating food distribution.
And that will be disastrous.
We are marching down the Venezuela highway right now, let me tell you.
And I know where this leads.
And I'll just lay it out for you here today.
This leads to rationing, price controls, and then Mark of the Beast biometric systems to make sure that you don't buy too much food.
Because how are they going to have grocery rationing if they can't identify you?
So in a country where the Democrats do not believe in voter ID, oh, they're going to roll out grocery ID. You won't be able to buy anything at grocery stores eventually.
This is going to take some time for them to roll out.
Unless you have the mark of the beast registration ID system, and then you'll only be allowed a certain amount of food.
You know, one chicken a week or whatever.
And how are they going to really monitor your expenditures on food and how are they going to limit that and control that?
Oh, it's the digital wallet system that's about to be rolled out after they crash the dollar.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, real simple system, isn't it?
So they will have total control over your wallet.
They'll know where you spend your money and they'll be able to restrict your purchases in whatever category they want.
And they're not going to stop with just groceries.
They're going to restrict your purchases of ammunition, preparedness supplies, firearms, or anything else.
Probably fuel, right?
You won't be allowed to buy more than a certain amount of gasoline or diesel because that's going to get rationed too.
People, we are collapsing into a totalitarian regime that is seizing control in communist fashion, Over almost everything that keeps America running.
They already control the banks.
They control free speech because they pressure big tech on who to censor.
They tried to roll out this Ministry of Truth disinformation governance board.
That got put on pause because clown show Jankiewicz decided to resign.
I guess she's going to go home and keep on singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Oh my gosh!
That woman is horrifying.
But don't worry, they're going to find someone to replace her that doesn't have such a clown world history of social media, by the way.
But the Biden regime is seizing every sector of society.
They control the elections.
They're all rigged.
They control all funding through Fauci and the NIH, the science funding.
And if you don't worship Fauci and do what he wants, you don't get funding.
Not at all.
Remember the book, Science for Sale?
Check that out if you want to know the truth.
Science for Sale.
They've taken over every sector.
They've taken over education.
They've taken over local policing in order to push in anti-police policies at the police departments in major U.S. cities.
That's been a DOJ program, you know, since the Biden years.
They've taken over everything.
And they've shut down the pipelines.
And they've shut down, you know, through political pressure, the Union Pacific Railroad carrying fertilizer so that farmers can't grow crops or as much hay for cattle.
They're shutting down our country.
People, they are seizing.
This is a communist takeover.
They're seizing the means of production, shutting down everything that keeps you alive, which is fuel, you know, diesel, gasoline, transportation, and food.
And when they went a little too far starving the babies, oh, they got some backlash on that, so they roll out Defense Department airplanes to airlift baby food from other countries.
You are living in a military environment.
I don't know any other way to describe it.
You're not living in a free market.
And the grocery store shelves are going to run empty real soon.
The dollar is going to collapse real soon here.
And then you're going to be a prisoner in this basically a nationwide prison camp, formerly known as the United States of America.
So get this, if you go to FEMA.gov and you read about the Defense Production Act, the DPA, here's what it says, quote, The Defense Production Act is the primary source of presidential authorities to expedite and expand the supply of materials and services from the U.S. industrial base needed to promote the national defense.
DPA authorities are available to support emergency preparedness.
Yeah, that should bring back some memories.
Maybe we'll cover that here.
Protection or restoration of critical infrastructures.
And efforts to prevent or reduce vulnerability to or recover from acts of terrorism within the United States.
Does baby food qualify for any of that?
Is this a national defense emergency?
That we don't have baby food?
You know all the moms can just go to the Weston A. Price website and they can print out the recipe to make your own baby food, which uses cod liver oil and other yummy ingredients full of just the right oils for growing babies' brains and nervous systems and so on.
You can make your own baby formula and, you know, hey, women, most women can produce breast milk.
In fact, probably have taken note, we didn't have a baby formula shortage until men started getting pregnant in America.
Yeah, thanks to the left.
Too many men getting pregnant.
That's the problem.
Okay, I'm kidding.
But is this really a national emergency?
Is this critical infrastructure?
Like wartime stuff that is equivalent to the United States being attacked by terrorists?
No.
No.
It's nothing like that.
This is protectionism that has shut down the free market system, which would normally function and provide all kinds of goods, including baby food, at competitive prices.
Let the free market work.
The free market does work.
By the way, if you go to FEMA.gov and you search for the Stafford Act and you look up Title VI, let me tell you what it says there, because this is what's being referenced in the Defense Production Act administered by FEMA. So just kind of the table of contents here, look at Subtitle A, Powers and Duties, It talks about, in Section 611, for example, the detailed functions or administration.
But then it goes on to describe mutual aid packs between states and neighboring counties, contributions for personnel and administrative expenses, grants for construction of emergency operations centers, use of funds to prepare for and respond to hazards, radiological emergency preparedness, And disaster-related information services.
And you realize that this Title VI section, it was written for if America got nuked in World War III, for example, or if there were a massive hurricane that struck the country, a series of earthquakes, or an EMP attack, a solar flare.
This is not to be invoked for a baby food shortage, but this just shows you that every emergency is going to be exploited, right?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
They're going to use the tiniest emergency here because it's visible to the public in order to now roll out FEMA and using Department of Defense airplanes.
So are we going to see, you know, DOD Cargo planes, C-130s, rolling into airports close to FEMA camps.
Are we going to see FEMA operations, military trucks, soldiers unloading baby food at grocery stores or something?
What does this mean?
I don't mean to dwell on this topic for so long, but this is a big warning sign about what's coming.
This is not about baby food.
This is about an overreaching, tyrannical, illegitimate regime that was not elected into power, now invoking wartime powers to seize control over America's food supply.
That's what this is.
And this is only the beginning.
See, I think that the uprising in America is not far away.
And I believe I know what's going to set it off.
And it is going to be food shortages, fuel shortages, rationing of both of those, scarcity, in other words, followed by panic.
And anybody who can do the math on this, who can just project what's happening and just look a few months down the road, if you look at the vast reduction in crop plantings, the reduction in fertilizer availability and fertilizer application across agriculture,
you look at the drought conditions across most of the Western United States, crop failures due to drought, crop failures in China due to floods, failures in India due to droughts, I mean, it's either floods or droughts, right?
So India halting wheat exports.
That was just announced a few days ago.
You've also got drought conditions in much of South America, so you have a lack of food exports there.
In fact, the only area of the world that is doing a great job growing wheat right now appears to be Russia.
And, of course...
There are no exports from Russia that are welcomed by the West.
They would rather people starve than buy wheat from Russia.
Can't have Russian wheat.
Oh, that evil Russian wheat, you know.
But I believe that, you know, what's the saying?
Every society is nine meals away from anarchy.
So that's three days without food, and then you have anarchy.
That's coming.
That's coming in America.
And let's talk about finance here for a second, because we saw an epic sell-off in the stock market yesterday, just yesterday.
I mean, the Dow was at one point down, I think, 1,100 points.
We're seeing fear and panic in the markets with a massive sell-off in almost every asset class, including, once again, crypto.
I mean, Bitcoin was down yesterday as well, down again below 30K. Now, if you look at the numbers, this crash of the market, well, maybe you don't call it a crash yet, This sell-off, let's say, is already the biggest, well, I'll call it a crash.
It's the biggest stock market crash in history.
This has already been bigger than the dot-com crash in terms of the actual dollar losses from the highs of this market to where we are now.
It is, again, it's the biggest market crash in history.
It has already happened, and it's only just beginning.
Where this is going is horrifying from a financial point of view.
The correction is going to be severe.
And opinions vary on whether the Fed is going to stick with their systematic raising of interest rates if they do stick to it.
They're just going to crash the market faster and harder.
If they back off of it, then they're announcing that the dollar will be worthless.
The Fed is trapped.
You understand?
I mean, I know you do.
Those of you listening to this, you do understand.
But the Fed is absolutely trapped.
There's no exit from the catastrophe that they have constructed around themselves.
They raise interest rates, they crash everything.
If they don't raise interest rates, or if they lower them again, then they send a signal to the world that the dollar must be abandoned by everybody because the dollar will be worthless, because we would be going down the route of hyperinflation at that point.
There's no way out of this.
And so, what does the West do?
You know, the United States and Western nations, they resort to lies and propaganda, and then government control, like with the baby food.
But About the lies, let me give an example here about Russia.
You know, the Azov stall factory, all of the Ukrainian troops, including many members from the Azov Nazi battalions, have unconditionally surrendered to Russia, and they are now POWs of Russia.
The way this was reported in the Western media was hilarious.
They reported that the Ukrainian soldiers who fought bravely, now their mission is complete.
That was kind of the reporting from the New York Times and other Western propaganda rags.
They saw that the Azov Stahl fighters have now concluded their mission.
Yeah.
Or evacuations have now been approved by Kiev.
And they're in the process of being evacuated after completing their mission.
No, they surrendered to the Russians and they're now prisoners of war.
It was an unconditional surrender.
But, you know, the Western press can't bring itself to admit that there's been a surrender.
So they have to lie, lie, and lie.
You know, when I was growing up, and this is back in the early 1980s, let's say, This is during the Reagan years and the US and Russia, well, the Soviet Union at the time, were, of course, the two world powers always at odds with each other.
And there was a joke that we used to tell each other as kids because we were pretty heavily propagandized by the United States at that time to hate the Soviet Union and to believe that the Soviet Union always lied.
And the joke went something like this.
If there were a race and America came in first, And the Soviet Union came in second, then the Soviet Union would report that the Soviet Union came in second place with a silver medal and that the Americans came in next to last.
That was the joke.
Except now, the joke is on us.
Because now the Western media will not admit that there's been a surrender of now about a thousand troops from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol.
Now it's the West that spins and lies and propagandizes like the way the Soviet Union used to do back in the 1980s.
So yeah, these thousand soldiers have unconditionally surrendered.
They're beaten down.
They're starving.
They have no capacity to fight.
Many of them are wounded.
Their morale has been completely destroyed, hence the surrender.
And yet the Western media says, mission complete!
Evacuation approved!
I've even seen articles where they say, you know, the brave Azov Stahl fighters are on their way home.
Well, yeah, after being interrogated as prisoners of war, perhaps, they might be on their way home.
But you see the deception and dishonesty of the Western press.
The New York Times says they've ended their combat mission in Mariupol.
No, they've been captured by the Russians.
At gunpoint!
I mean, I guess if a criminal thug came up to you on the street in New York City and robbed you at gunpoint, the New York Times would report something like, you know, financial transactions of private citizens thrive in the city.
It's like, what?
I got robbed!
You know, New York Times, no, you didn't get robbed.
You participated in a redistribution of resources for the greater good of society.
That's what happened here.
Seriously.
Zelensky actually said about the surrender, he said, quote, the evacuation mission from Azovstal continues.
It is led by our military and intelligence officers, period.
Yeah, because they surrendered first.
It's like, that's not leadership.
You're just first in line for the surrender.
You're a prisoner of war.
I mean, my God!
Evacuation mission?
It's a mission now.
Nothing but spin and lies from Ukraine, Western Europe, United States, all the Western press.
Nothing but lies at this point.
You can't trust a word they say.
But you know how Biden is now seizing the food supply in the United States and directing where food goes?
He's doing the same thing in Ukraine too.
Biden is, in effect, hijacking Ukraine's wheat supply.
There's something like 20 tons of Ukrainian wheat that Biden is insisting now must be exported out of Ukraine.
And that the U.S. wants to import from Ukraine in order to shore up the U.S. wheat supplies, leaving the Ukrainian people starving.
Because this 20 tons is reportedly going to come from the Ukrainian strategic reserves of wheat.
I mean, the Joe Biden slogan to Ukraine should probably be, we'll take your wheat so you can't eat, but we'll send you weapons, of course, so that you die in these old, non-operable U.S. weapons systems that we're just trying to get rid of.
Because, you know, we don't make parts to maintain those anymore.
So here, have them.
Die in these vehicles.
But we'll take all your food so that you also starve in case you are lucky enough to survive, you know, the war.
I mean, this is not an exaggeration to say that Ukraine is facing famine.
Ukraine cannot get the food that it needs to maintain its population.
There is a desperate shortage of Of domestic wheat.
But Biden wants to take it from Ukraine.
This is the same thing he's doing in America now.
He wants to take it from Ukraine and contribute to famine in Ukraine.
It's just unreal, especially when you understand the history of famine in Ukraine and how many millions of people starved to death in Ukraine in years past, like the 1930s.
Under the Soviet Union, how many million Ukrainians and Russians died from famine, crop failures, lack of free market distribution?
It was, I don't know the exact number, but I'm pretty sure it's something like 6, 7, 8 million people died in Ukraine and Russia due to a starvation and famine for these exact same reasons, because the government's dictated food distribution.
You know what makes this even more insane is that the U.S. is selling massive supplies of corn to China.
So that's contributing to the scarcity of food and food price inflation in the United States.
So Biden is essentially saying, no, no, we're going to solve the food price problem by...
Making sure that Ukraine gets to export its wheat onto the global marketplace, thereby bringing down wheat prices everywhere around the world.
Well, what are the Ukrainian people going to eat?
I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people in all this.
They are subjected to the most demonic policies from the United States and total shakedown from the Biden family.
Bunch of crooks, a bunch of thieves, corrupt officials, bribery, kickbacks, financial fraud, money laundering, you name it.
That's what's going on between the Bidens and Ukraine.
And the people of Ukraine are caught in the middle.
And they're also getting blown up by Russian artillery because Zelensky, pressured by the United States, won't allow his troops to pull back from the front lines.
You know, Russia's doing a surround and a pincer type of movement, right?
Russia's going around the Ukrainian troops and cutting off their supply lines.
That's what's happening.
Let me bring in a story here.
Alright, this was reported on the Free West Media website with Paul Craig Roberts, PCR. Alright, a French ex-soldier Adrian Bouquet spent three weeks in Ukraine, and what he saw there will be etched on his mind forever, he said.
Once back home, he was dismayed to learn that the media keep inviting so-called experts who have not been to Ukraine and have no idea what's going on there.
So he's speaking to French radio station Sud Radio.
He said that he had witnessed, quote, a lot of war crimes.
All those war crimes, he said, were committed by Ukrainian soldiers.
And Bokeh is therefore enormously alarmed that Europe is sending weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
They wear all kinds of Nazi symbols on their uniforms, he said.
They do not hide these symbols.
They boast about them.
Quote, I worked with them and gave them medicine.
Do you know what they said?
They said that they would skin Jews or blacks if they had the chance.
End quote.
Does this align with the mainstream media narrative of saving, quote, democracy or, quote, our values in Ukraine?
This is from the article.
So the guy continues, people can say whatever they want.
I was there.
I saw what happened there.
He says he has made dozens of videos of war crimes.
That he saw in a barn Russian prisoners of war who had been beaten and tied up.
Quote, fighters from the Azov battalion asked them who the officers were.
Each Russian soldier was shot in the knees with a Kalashnikov.
It's like an AK rifle.
I have videos to prove it, otherwise I would not dare say such a thing.
Officers were shot in the head.
He says, quote, that's how it goes in the Azov battalion.
And he went on to say that he had seen American cameraman blatantly staging footage and the Ukrainian army hiding ammunition in the homes of private citizens at night without informing civilians.
Well, that's totally contradictory to what you're hearing in the media.
Well, we're fighting for democracy.
We're fighting for our values.
Well, that might be true among many people in Ukraine, but what about the Azov Nazis, huh?
What about them?
What about the war crimes?
And this isn't the only guy that has come back from Ukraine with similar stories, by the way.
And by the way, some of those videos have been publicly released, and I haven't shown them, but I know Infowars broadcast them.
They're just horrifying.
Russian soldiers being shot in the groin and in the knees as a kind of torture by the Ukrainian Azov Nazi battalions that are totally supported by the West, supported by America.
In fact, I want to bring in a video here of the Russian 2S19, what is it?
It's a self-propelled artillery gun.
Looks like a tank to most people.
It's not a tank.
It doesn't have a main gun that's a tank gun.
It's a tracked artillery vehicle that is extremely heavy-duty.
It's called the MSTA-S, or the MSTA-S, I guess.
To my editor, go ahead and roll that video in the background while I'm talking over it.
Now, what you've got to understand about this, these are massive war machines for land battles, and the range of the artillery, which is 152 millimeters, is reportedly up to 30 kilometers.
That's right.
These self-propelled artillery machines here can fire shells Up to 30 kilometers away, which is, you know, that's crazy far in battles.
That's, I mean, geez, the enemy is approaching you and you can rain down artillery upon them for a very long time before they ever get close enough to shoot you with their tanks, for example.
This is a crazy capability that Russia has.
And, you know, the wisdom of world history is that you should never get in a land battle with Russia.
Because you will lose.
Now, remember that the United States, its military is vast.
But the military strength of the United States is found in its naval forces.
The naval forces are able to project power around the world, and that was the goal of the United States military.
Being that the continental United States, you could think of it globally as kind of an island.
We don't share a land border with an enemy nation that we're involved in a war with.
We're not at war with Canada.
We're not at war with Mexico.
So the United States focused on naval war power, naval technology, aircraft carriers, the ability to project power through the seas or across the seas, and then to have that power be mobile across the seas, and then to be able to launch aircraft that can run missions onto land.
Russia, on the other hand, given its history and its geography, has relatively limited access to the oceans.
Compared to the United States, of course, the U.S. is ideally positioned accessing both the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Russia doesn't have that advantage, but they have historically a lot of enemies on land, including the Nazis of World War II. And because they've faced land battles throughout their history, Russia has become incredibly good at fighting wars on land.
And in almost every case, I don't know the entire history of Russia and the Soviet Union, but in almost every case, anybody who's tried to take down Russia in a land battle has been decisively defeated.
And this artillery even really helps explain why.
How do you go up against 152-millimeter artillery?
Some of those shells are laser-guided, by the way.
They will hit you with incredible precision down to, you know, a few feet or less than a meter, let's say, since we're using millimeters and everything.
Stick to the metric system here.
But how do you face off against that?
And, you know, how do you drive your vehicles and your men towards Russia when they have a line of these 152 millimeter, what is it, 2S19 howitzers on tracks?
You know, there's not much you can do unless you've got a lot of aircraft with tank buster, you know, air to ground missiles that can blow these things up.
You know, what can you do?
You can't just send in your own tanks without support crew and, you know, without personnel and logistics and command and everything.
Your tanks will be blind if they don't have all the other support units around them.
So attacking Russia on land is incredibly difficult, and also Russia's ability to project its own power on land is world-class.
In fact, China doesn't even come close to this.
China has a whole lot of men.
China doesn't have this kind of technology.
China doesn't have the experience in land battles to even go up against Russia with any kind of success.
But Russia and China are not at war with each other.
They're more likely to be allies against the West, at least until the West is destroyed, after which perhaps Russia and China might fight with each other for final domination of the world.
But before that, they would like to team up and destroy the West, and that may be exactly what they're doing or attempting to do.
I mean, what do you think is going to happen to Western Europe?
When the food shortage kicks in and the fuel, the energy shortage kicks in, what do you think is going to happen?
From Strangetounds.org, government helpless.
Bank of England warns of, quote, apocalyptic global food shortage.
Andrew Bailey, he's the governor of the Bank of England.
He says that they have run out of horsemen when counting the shocks facing Britain.
Is he referring to the horsemen of the apocalypse, perhaps?
With runaway energy and food costs driven by global market forces beyond his control, prices of food are rising the fastest in 30 years, creating a very big income shock that is expected to intensify.
Mr. Bailey told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that he is increasingly concerned about a further surge in food costs if Ukraine, a major crop grower, is unable to ship wheat and cooking oils from its warehouses because of a Russian blockade.
See, this guy is right in line with Biden.
They want to take Ukraine's wheat.
And then call it a success.
Oh, we got Ukraine to be able to export wheat.
Great, we took their wheat.
Don't the Ukrainian people need their wheat?
And then here's a story from the Western Journal back in the United States that you may not even believe.
The headline is demonic?
Demrep says women need to be able to kill babies to deal with inflation.
Right, right.
Kill more babies, a Democratic representative in a California swing district says.
Appearing on MSNBC, Democratic Rep Katie Porter insisted that abortion and inflation were linked issues, telling Lawrence O'Donnell that women, quote, need to be able to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed, which, of course, implies that the way to deal with inflation is to, you know, kill your babies before they eat too much.
Porter appeared on the network Wednesday, asked by O'Donnell how the issues of inflation and abortion compare.
And Porter said, quote, I don't think they compare.
I think they actually reinforce each other.
The fact that things like inflation can happen and it can become more expensive to feed your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need to be able to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed.
Well, by that logic, then if fuel prices get high, does Porter say you should be able to go around blowing up cars?
Or what if food inflation is really bad?
Does she think you should be able to murder your children at age 3, age 5, age 16 when parents really want to murder their teenagers?
I mean, according to Porter, I guess it's perfectly allowed now because, you know, inflation.
Oh, sorry, boys.
Food prices are just too high.
Too many mouths to feed around here.
This hurts me more than it hurts you.
I mean, is that what she's suggesting now?
This is insane.
Maybe she should have an election campaign bumper sticker, you know, Porter for Congress or whatever.
Is she a congresswoman?
She would say, fight inflation, kill your babies.
Porter for Congress.
It's like, really?
Unbelievable.
Welcome to MSNBC, Mrs.
Porter.
What do you have to say about abortion and inflation?
Oh, hi, y'all.
I got five kids to feed.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wait a second.
Text just came in.
Oh, I got three kids to feed.
Oh, so happy for abortion choice.
Oh, thank God for abortion.
I just saved $50 a week.
Of course, that would be the Democrats, you know, post-birth abortion, which...
Have you seen the videos of Democrats saying that children aren't alive until they can talk?
At whatever age they start speaking, I guess, according to them, you can murder them any time before that because they're not really human beings until they can speak.
Really?
What about the mutes?
No, I'm not asking that facetiously.
I'm serious.
What about people who can't speak?
Are they not human beings?
Are you saying that you can murder the physically handicapped?
Because that's ripped right out of Nazi Germany, folks.
We published the Nazi posters in a story about that, exposing the Nazis who are saying to murder the infirmed, the handicapped, the mentally retarded.
And why?
Oh, to save money for the Third Reich, you see.
How many more parallels are there going to be between leftists and the Third Reich?
Nazis, mass murder, eugenics, genocide, ethnic cleansing.
These are the policies of the left.
And also, these are the policies of the Azov Battalion in Ukraine, too, by the way.
Which is what the people who have been there keep telling us.
Just look at their tattoos.
It tells you the whole story.
All right, now we're going to shift gears to a technology story that you'll find shocking.
A ransomware gang is now threatening to overthrow the government of Costa Rica.
They've taken over many government servers and they're now demanding, I think, $20 million in ransomware payments in order to release the decryption keys so that the Costa Rican government can function, operate their servers.
We're going to get into that story here in just a second.
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And remember that a Russian hacking group called KillNet has announced they're going to be unleashing cyber attacks against the United States, probably targeting communications infrastructure as well as financial infrastructure, power grid, and so on.
That should be interesting when that gets launched.
We'll see how that goes.
But in the meantime, Costa Rica is under ransomware.
And the ransomware group said, quote, we have insiders in your government and also working on gaining access to your other systems.
You have no option but to pay us.
It was discovered in April affecting the finance ministry, including customs and tax collection networks.
And the Associated Press says that other government networks have been infected and have not worked properly in a month.
And the group, which is known as CONTI, I guess, C-O-N-T-I, has said, quote, we are determined to overthrow the government by means of a cyber attack.
We have already shown you all the strength and power.
You have introduced an emergency.
So I think they're referring to the state of emergency that's been declared by Costa Rica.
Yeah.
CONTI Group Ransomware Attack.
Yeah, that was reported by Zero Hedge.
So this is fascinating because...
Number one, it shows you that governments are typically not very good at network security.
Not good at all.
I mean, it's kind of pathetic, really.
I mean, it's very bad.
So these hackers are able to get in and encrypt all the government's files.
Basically seizing up the systems.
And then they say, you know, if you pay us the ransomware, usually in Bitcoin or some other crypto, then we'll give you back the decryption keys.
You can decrypt your servers and files, and then you can continue to run your government.
Well, this group, the Conte group, has said to Costa Rica, if you don't give us the $20 million, we're going to delete your decryption keys.
Joy!
Because, you know, you can't just guess the encryption or decryption keys.
It doesn't work that way.
You would need more computing power than exists on the planet, unless you have, like, magical quantum computers.
But there's no real way to beat the encryption.
And so what Costa Rica has to decide is, is it worth paying the $20 million and get our government back?
Or do we say no to the ransomware and then we just rebuild from scratch, just flash all the hard drives or buy new servers?
Reinstall new, fresh operating systems and just lose all the data.
Right?
I mean, that's the question that the government's facing there.
But this is a lesson to be learned by all governments.
See?
It's not just Costa Rica that has vulnerabilities in its servers.
Almost every government does a bad job of securing its servers.
And hackers have found many vulnerabilities that they have not yet exploited.
They're waiting to exploit them.
And while some hackers are motivated by money, other hackers, including, let's say, state actor hackers, they're just motivated to destroy their target.
They'll just decrypt the servers and, you know, walk away.
Like, good luck!
We don't want your money.
We just want you to have to deal with this, right?
And that's going to happen as global warfare accelerates.
So I want to ask you this question.
You know how bad the supply chain situation is in the United States right now already, just based on price inflation, lack of available materials, transportation logistics problems, rising fuel prices, containers not getting shipped out of China, all these issues, right?
Plus the lockdowns and all the other nonsense.
What happens when you add in a layer of cyber attacks on that infrastructure?
Cyber attacks against transportation companies, cyber attacks against pipelines.
There was a big cyber attack against an oil pipeline on the East Coast about, what was that, two years ago or something around that time?
That shut it down for a long time.
And I think they pay the ransom, by the way.
What about cyber attacks against the power grid?
And against refineries or cyber attacks against governments?
That's what happened in Costa Rica.
They can't process anything in their finance ministry, which probably includes collecting money, right?
So how are they going to collect money?
The threat is real.
How are they going to function when all of this is taking place?
I mean, how is society going to function?
How are we going to get food?
You think baby food is a problem now?
Wait till the cyber attack wave takes place.
It'll be far worse.
By the way, in the realm of cyber, I do want to mention that it has now been determined that half of Joe Biden's Twitter followers are fake accounts, which, that's no surprise, since half of Joe Biden's votes were fake votes, too, right?
So, I mean, he did not win the election.
The new documentary, 2000 Mules...
Affirms that.
that.
It shows the indisputable evidence of that.
And when you realize that the votes were fake and that the Twitter followers are fake, which by the way, will be very amusing to Elon Musk and his checkbook.
And you realize that the news is fake as we've covered here today.
And the science is fake.
The pandemic was fake.
And also the food supply is kind of fake because it's all processed, artificial garbage food, including the baby formula food.
It's That's fake food.
It's not even real mother's milk, obviously.
But everything is so fake, you realize that you're living in a kind of Wizard of Oz environment where there is a squat little man, a little sweaty, pathetic creature behind the curtain, working levers, shifting levers around to create manufactured consent.
Oh, well, the consensus is, you know, the majority says that Biden is the most popular president in history.
It's all illusion, folks.
It's all the man behind the curtain.
It's all fake.
It's all fake.
Almost nobody in America supports Joe Biden, and almost nobody supported him in the election.
I mean, I know there were some, but it was nowhere near, what do they claim, 81 million or something?
Give me a break.
It was probably less than half that.
Without all the faked accounts and fake votes and fake ballots and bots, the Democrats would have nothing.
They are a party of fakes.
They are the fake political projection.
They're an illusion.
I mean, aside from a few crazy left-wing lunatics, the moms in America actually don't want to murder their babies, it turns out.
They think that's wrong, and they're correct about that.
And most Americans do want to protect the border.
Most Americans are tired of rising food prices and inflation.
Most Americans oppose the lockdowns under COVID. And I think that only about half of Americans actually wanted to get vaccinated.
I know a lot of them did because they felt like they were forced to buy their job, but if given a free choice without losing their jobs or losing their pensions or losing their retirement benefits, most Americans would have said no.
And even right now, probably, what does the CDC claim?
They claim something like 70% of America's had vaccines.
I think that's an exaggeration.
I don't think it's that high.
It might only be half.
New story from the post-millennial.
Breaking.
Washington gas stations run out of gas.
Add extra digits in anticipation of $10 prices.
A spokesperson at 76 confirmed to the post-millennial that the gas pumps were reprogrammed to allocate for double-digit pricing.
So this story says, quote, gas stations across the U.S. are running out of fuel.
And in anticipation of increasing gas prices, stations in Washington are reprogramming pumps to include double-digit numbers, as the current trend could put prices over $10 a gallon.
Now remember that J.P. Morgan analysts have now said that gas will be $6.20 a gallon by August.
Oh yeah, get ready for that.
What will they be in October?
What will they be by Christmas?
Well, if it's 620 by August, and you know that the Biden regime is deliberately trying to destroy the energy infrastructure of America, and by that time we might be in World War III with Russia or even China or both!
What do you think gas is going to be by Christmas?
$10 a gallon is not a crazy guess.
It could very well be $10 a gallon.
Which means diesel will probably be $12 a gallon by that time.
You know what that will do to our economy?
You know what that will do to the cost of a gallon of milk?
Or a canister of baby food, huh?
Or how about a nice juicy steak?
You'll be paying $50 a pound.
For a sirloin steak, probably, at some point.
And then the question becomes...
Oh, and by the way, just a reminder, if you had bought gold and silver before all that, you're not going to freak out as much because that's going to hold value, as I've talked about.
But for the gas stations, how long is it just going to be double-digit prices?
When are they going to have to add another digit because gas is $100 a gallon?
Because of hyperinflation.
That may not be that far away either, you see.
We're going the way of Venezuela, you know, financially speaking, and also with the authoritarian tyranny.
And by the way, I don't think that the Democrats are going to just sit back and allow an election to take place here, a midterm election.
I don't think so.
They're going to make sure they have a crisis to stop that.
Even if they have to invent the crisis themselves, you know, another 9-11, a mass shooting, I don't know, you know, nuclear terrorism, dirty bombs that we talked about yesterday, whatever it takes.
I wouldn't be surprised if the deep state is probably working with Middle Eastern terrorists right now because, you know, Bush worked with the Saudis to carry out 9-11.
You know that, right?
That was all planned and engineered and allowed to take place or stand down orders.
Of course, 9-11 was an inside job.
Everybody knows that now.
At the time, it wasn't obvious at first, but in retrospect, of course it was.
And don't even get me started on Building 7.
Wasn't even hit by an airplane.
They demolished it.
Controlled demolition, right?
But I wouldn't be surprised if Deep State is training terrorists and allowing them to walk into the U.S. to carry out dirty bomb attacks in major U.S. cities, kind of in the weeks leading up to the election.
So they can declare an emergency.
And then they can say, well, we can't have the election, right?
We're in a war!
Or, you know, it's not safe to go outside.
There's radiation everywhere.
And then, what do you think is going to happen with FEMA and Biden seizing the means of production?
He won't be just seizing baby food materials.
He'll be seizing all food output, all grocery stores, all farms.
That's under the National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, signed by Obama.
They can seize everything.
Cattle, seeds, fuel, tractors.
They could come seize my donkeys if they wanted to, but they'd have to feed them instead of me, so they probably don't want them.
So this is why I say that what I started out with today is...
We're going to have an uprising in America, I believe.
I'm not talking about a conservative-only uprising or anything like that.
I'm talking about actually more of the impoverished masses staging a mass uprising because they can't afford to eat, can't afford to put gas in the car, can't afford to feed their babies.
And they can't just abort them all, although I'm sure some of the leftists will try.
But they're going to have to figure out how to feed their families, and it's going to be increasingly difficult to achieve that under these conditions that we're describing.
Collapse of the dollar, more food inflation, more scarcity, more fuel inflation, and probably more tyrannical lockdowns.
Either a bioweapon gets released, or they collapse the dollar, or they launch dirty bomb terrorist attacks, or they get us in a world war with China or Russia, or both, as I said earlier.
This is probably all, or at least one of these major things, is going to happen before the midterm elections so that they can justify canceling the elections.
Now, I talked to Dr.
Alan Keyes about this on his show the other day, and he said that it's going to be very difficult For the federal government to cancel elections because elections are a state-level affair.
States run elections, not the federal government.
But states can be ordered to do insane things in emergencies, just as we saw with COVID, just as we saw with the lockdowns.
Now, the good news is that many states resisted the lockdowns, but almost all the states banned ivermectin.
Remember that?
Almost all the states went along with the vaccines.
Well, I think all the states did go along with the vaccines.
Almost all states fell in line with Fauci, at least at first, although there's been a lot of pushback since then by a lot of states.
But imagine the next big emergency, you know, hemorrhagic fever, people bleeding out of their eyeballs on CNN. No, I'm not talking about just normal CNN hosts who look like they're bleeding out of their eyeballs.
I'm talking about footage of people dying from hemorrhagic fever.
Or imagine the dollar collapse that is coming, right?
What is that going to look like nationally?
Again, I think it comes to an uprising which makes society ungovernable.
It makes cities, if I dare say, unpoliceable.
Is that a term?
It's unpoliceable.
The police won't even try because they're like, forget it.
Are you kidding me?
There's 100,000 people in the streets rioting.
Good luck.
You know, all we can do is maybe stop so many buildings from being burned down right here on the edge in this little section over here.
But we can't stop the main riot.
Forget it.
It's over.
The city has fallen.
And you realize, too, when the riots begin, it's going to make the supply chain far worse than it is already.
In other words, the riots will be a result of the inflation and the scarcity and the supply chain failures.
But then once the riots take place, they will make all of those conditions far worse.
To the point where, would you be able to buy anything?
Will grocery stores function?
Will Amazon ship anything?
Will UPS and FedEx deliver anything to certain areas?
I mean, at some point, even UPS has to just say, ah, these zip codes are no-go zones.
It's like, no, or shall we say, no brown zones.
Remember, because UPS is brown.
The uniforms are brown.
The boxes are brown.
The trucks are brown.
These will be no brown zones.
Although they would never say that because it sounds racist, but it's not.
I'm just talking about boxes.
No go, no brown zones.
Yeah, they're not going to go there at all.
Because they're going to get their trucks all looted and their drivers killed in the streets if they go into these areas.
I mean, I've seen footage of, you know, FedEx trucks getting looted.
It's just going to get worse, folks.
Footage of trains getting looted.
Trains that are carrying U.S. Postal Service packages.
Going to get worse.
And then, this is not even difficult to see, and then you'll have the mass evacuations from the cities.
I'm talking about American refugees, and this came up in my conversation with Steve Quayle.
That recent interview with Steve Quayle, I don't know, it was a week ago or two weeks ago, Steve was talking about this, the mass migration away from America's cities.
I also covered it in my free downloadable audiobook called Ghost World.
If you want to get that audiobook, it's free.
Just go to ghostworld.co.
That's.co.
Ghostworld.co.
Download the book.
Because in that audiobook, which is, again, free, I paint a picture of the cities collapsing into abandoned zones, like post-apocalyptic dead zones.
That's where things are headed.
And I don't know what stops this process, except perhaps, you know, the second coming of Christ here.
I mean, if God intervenes, which He will at some point, we just don't know when, but yeah, God intervening can stop all the evil.
And it will.
One word from God and all the evil is destroyed and all the Satanism is gone from society.
Yeah, that day is coming.
But is it going to come in 2022?
I don't think so.
I'm not too sure about that.
We're going to have to endure a lot.
Nothing on earth, I should say, is going to stop these trends that I'm talking about.
Nothing on earth.
Well, okay, except perhaps if the deep state cabal were taken down and Trump were reinstalled in the White House, which I know that sounds like a Q theory or something.
I'm not saying that I'm convinced that that's going to happen.
I'm just saying, theoretically, if that were to happen, Trump could probably turn this thing around.
Seriously, you know, Trump has an incredible ability to manage a lot of projects, and the real advantage of Trump, even though he made some mistakes, especially with vaccines, but his real strength is out-bullying the international threats to America.
Like, Trump can out-bully Russia, and he can out-bully China.
Trump is very good at that.
China and Russia would not be messing with America if Trump were in the White House.
Make no mistake.
Regardless of what other domestic policies, at least, we wouldn't be in World War III. So maybe if there's some mechanism in place to bring Trump back.
I mean, look, the election was rigged.
It needs to be reversed.
Biden needs to be removed from office.
The Supreme Court should rule on this.
In a perfect world, and put Trump back in to complete the rest of his second term, frankly.
Also, by the way, I'm kind of privately rooting for Ron DeSantis to run in 2024.
Because I think Ron DeSantis is, I mean, look at what he's doing in Florida, not to get off topic too much here, but he's doing such an amazing job in Florida that if he were in the White House, if we have, you know, if the dollar still exists, if we have a White House, DeSantis would be, I think, the ideal person to run it.
But I'm not entirely convinced that everything's going to hold together until 2024.
And you know I've publicly predicted that the United States of America as we know it will cease to exist before the end of 2025.
I've had that prediction on the record for, what, five years now or longer?
Six years?
Something like that.
And I'm sticking with it.
I don't think we hold together much longer.
And I think the food riots begin this year.
Well, in fact, I'm certain of it.
It'll probably happen in the next few months.
We won't even make it to Halloween probably without food riots happening.
But that's kind of the overview of where we are, folks.
So I think the takeaway, the practical situation from all this is we've got to be prepared for every level of insanity, including a total collapse of the supply chain.
Be prepared to not be able to buy food.
Be prepared to have no value remaining in the dollar.
Be prepared for food riots to shut down major metropolitan areas.
Be prepared for dirty bombs to be set off in multiple US cities simultaneously in the coming months, especially before the midterm elections.
Be prepared for the bioweapon release of hemorrhagic fever.
Be prepared for all these things.
If you are...
You're gonna make it through, you know, relatively easily.
If you're not, life is gonna suck for the next year, or more than a year.
Because by the time food shows back up in the grocery stores, you know what it's gonna cost?
And you know I love avocados.
I can't imagine.
I'm probably going to be paying $20 per avocado at some point here.
I know the Michoacan drug cartels in Mexico are going to be smiling, grinning from ear to ear that the health ranger gringo from the north is paying $20 per avocado.
Yep, that's probably what's going to happen.
But I'm still going to do it because avocados are good for you, and I love them.
But not everybody's going to be able to afford, you know, 400% food inflation.
A lot of people are going to freak out.
I can just see in the future I'm going to have to visit like roadside avocado smuggling stands that are on the side of the roads in Texas, you know.
We don't speak any English at all, but the prices are better.
Like, okay, man, I'll just pay cash.
Give me the avocados.
I won't tell anybody.
We'll be doing like underground avocado smuggling deals in Texas, no doubt, real soon now.
But you know, you got to give credit, by the way, to the one thing the Mexican drug cartels are very good at is distribution.
Something FEMA could probably learn from.
If you want to know how to get baby food into America, go talk to the narcos at the border.
They got that thing all figured out.
They got the drug mules.
They got the smuggling routes.
They got the supply chain working, man.
The Mexicans work the supply chain.
You want baby food?
They can make it happen.
Especially with the border all wide open.
Meanwhile, all the white people in North America that control the government are like, should we have like a baby food cartel or should we have tariffs or a monopoly, a protection racket?
Because they're always trying to figure out how to get the most out of everything while screwing the people.
Meanwhile, the Mexicans are just delivering everything that people want, you know, marijuana.
Crack, you know, meth, avocados, like everything that you want, not you in particular, but you know what I'm saying.
Everything there's demand for, guns, ammo, they've got the supply routes working.
They don't even need Union Pacific Railroads.
They got the human railroad that's working every day across the border.
Alright, that's enough insanity for today.
I better wrap this up before I get into some kind of a cultural minefield here that I can never extricate myself from.
The truth is, there's something to admire in every culture.
Seriously.
And every culture does something really, really well.
And for Mexican culture, it's logistics.
I just got to be honest.
They have logistics all figured out.
Yeah, seriously.
Okay, thank you for listening today.
And I hope you found this informative and perhaps slightly entertaining.
I'll be back with you again tomorrow, God willing.
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Stay well.
Take care of your health.
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